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Coming-of-Age

Tales of the timeless transition from childhood to adulthood.
(NOTE: This category contains adult books which feature children, teen, or young adult characters -- not books aimed at a teen or young adult audience.)

Authors & Titles

Adam, Christina: Love and Country

Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women

Alther, Lisa: Kinflicks

Ammaniti, Niccolò: I'm Not Scared

Appelfeld, Aharon: All Whom I Have Loved

Appleton, Janet: That Summer

Ashworth, Andrea: Once in a House on Fire (England, contemporary [1990s])

Askari, Brent: Not Ready for Prime Time

Babcock, Joe: The Boys and the Bees

Baldacci, David: Wish You Well

Ballard, J.G.: Empire of the Sun
NOTE: a sequel was published in 1992: The Kindness of Women

Bardi, Abby: The Book of Fred

Barkdull, Larry: Cold Train Coming

Barkdull, Larry: The Mourning Dove

Barry, Lynda: Cruddy

Basu, Jay: The Stars Can Wait

Bathurst, Bella: Special

Bausch, Richard: Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. America, and All the Ships At Sea

Bellows, Nathaniel: On This Day

Bialosky, Jill: House Under Snow

Bird, Sarah: The Flamenco Academy

Bird, Sarah: The Yokota Officers Club

Black, Jim: River Season

Blau, Jessica Anya: The Summer of Naked Swim Parties

Boren, Karen Lee: Girls in Peril

Borofka, David: The Island

Bouraoui, Nina: Tomboy

Bowen, Elizabeth: The Last September

Boyden, Amanda: Pretty Little Dirty

Braff, Joshua: The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green

Brewer, Sonny: A Sound Like Thunder

Broder, Bill: Taking Care of Cleo

Brook, Rhidian: The Testimony of Taliesin Jones

Brown, Carrie: The Rope Walk

Brown, Joe David: Paper Moon

Browner, Jesse: Everything Happens Today

Burchill, Julie: Sugar Rush

Burgess, Melvin: Doing It

Burks, Cris: Neecey's Lullaby

Burton, Rainelle: The Root Worker

Bynum, Sarah Shun-Lien: Madeleine is Sleeping

Cadre, Adam: Ready, Okay!

Caldwell, V.M.: Runt

Carter, Betsy: Swim to Me

Carter, Vincent O.: Such Sweet Thunder

Cauley, Harry: Millersburg

Charles, Bryan: Grab On to Me Tightly As If I Knew The Way

Chen, Ran: A Private Life

Childress, Mark: Crazy in Alabama

Childress, Mark: One Mississippi

Chong, Kevin: Baroque-A-Nova

Chorão, Ian: Bruiser

Chun, Sue: Beijing Doll

Clair, Maxine: October Suite

Clarke, Brock: The Ordinary White Boy

Clauser, Suzanne: A Girl Named Sooner

Coe, Jonathan: Rotter's Club(NOTE: This title is part of the Rotter's Club series, listed under Satire)

Cofer, Judith Ortiz: The Meaning of Consuelo

Cohen, Leah Hager: Heat Lightning

Cook, K.L.: The Girl From Charnelle

Courtenay, Bryce: The Power of One

Craze, Galaxy: May series

By the Shore

Tiger, Tiger

Cronin, A.J.: A Song of Sixpence

Cullin, Mitch: Whompyjawed

Cunningham, M. Allen: The Green Age of Asher Witherow

Daniels, N. Frank: Futureproof

Davis, Amanda: Wonder When You'll Miss Me

Davis, Bridgett M.: Shifting Through Neutral

Day, Angie: The Way to Somewhere

Deane, Seamus: Reading in the Dark

Dierbeck, Lisa: One Pill Makes You Smaller

Di Filippo, Paul: Roadside Bodhisattva

Dolby, Tom: The Sixth Form

Donner, Rebecca: Sunset Terrace

Donoghue, Emma: Stir-Fry

Doster, Stephen: Lord Baltimore

Duchovny, Avram: Coney

Duffy, Bruce: Last Comes the Egg

Dunthorne, Joe: Submarine

Durkee, Lee: Rides of the Midway

Earley, Tony: Jim Glass series

Jim the Boy

The Blue Star

Eidus, Janice: The War of the Rosens

Eppes, Cindy: South of Reason

Eprile, Tony: The Persistence of Memory

Ferguson, Drew: The Screwed Up Life of Charlie the Second

Ferrell, Monica: The Answer is Always Yes

Fischer, Jackie Moyer: An Egg on Three Sticks

Fletcher, Susan: Eve Green

Foley, Mick: Tietam Brown

Ford, Darnella: Finding Me

Francis, Brian: Fruit

Freda, Joseph: The Patience of Rivers

Freedman, J.F.: The Obstacle Course

Freud, Esther: Love Falls

Fuerst, James W.: Huge

Fuqua, Jonathon Scott: Gone and Back Again

Fuqua, Jonathon Scott: The Reappearance of Sam Webber

Fusco, John: Paradise Salvage

Garigliano, Jeff: Dogface

Gatewood, Robert: The Sound of the Trees

Gearino, G.D.: Blue Hole

Gibb, Camilla: Mouthing the Words

Gilchrist, Ellen: Net of Jewels

Glancy, Diane: Flutie

Godden, Rumer: Pippa Passes

Godden, Rumer: Thursday's Child

Godfrey, Rebecca: The Torn Skirt

Goldberg, Natalie: Banana Rose

Goodman, Eric: Child of My Right Hand

Gordon, Jacquie: Flanders Point

Gottlieb, Eli: The Boy Who Went Away

Greenlaw, Lavinia: Mary George of Allnorthover

Greenway, Alice: White Ghost Girls

Guene, Faiza: Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow

Gunn, James: The Toy Collector

Gunn, Kirsty: Rain

Gunn, Neil: Morning Tide

Haines, Carolyn: Summer of the Redeemers

Handler, Daniel: The Basic Eight (High School, 1990s)

Harfenist, Jean: A Brief History of the Flood

Harper, Rachel M.: Brass Ankle Blues

Harris, Fred: Following the Harvest

Hart, Lenore: Waterwoman

Hawke, Ethan: The Hottest State

Hays, Tommy: In the Family Way (South Carolina, 1960s)

Hedges, Peter: An Ocean in Iowa

Hegi, Ursula: Sacred Time

Helms, Beth: Dervishes

Hepinstall, Kathy: The Absence of Nectar

Hermann, Nellie: The Cure for Grief

Hesse, Herman: Demian

Hill, Mars: The Moaner's Bench

Hollingsworth, A.B.: Chipper DeHart series

Flatbellies

University Boulevard

Hornbacher, Marya: The Center of Winter

Hornburg, Michael: Downer's Grove

Huffey, Rhoda: The Hallelujah Side

Huston, Charlie: The Shotgun Rule

Hyland, M.J.: Carry Me Down

Hyland, M.J.: How the Light Gets In

Inman, Robert: Dairy Queen Days

Jackson, Jeremy: In Summer

Jarrar, Randa: A Map of Home

Jenkins, Emily: Mister Posterior and the Genius Child

Johnson, Dedra: Sandrine's Letter to Tomorrow

Johnson, Wayne: The Devil You Know

Johnston, Wayne: The Divine Ryans

Johnston, Wayne: Human Amusements

Jong-Fast, Molly: Normal Girl

Joyce, Graham: The Facts of Life

Kalpakian, Laura: Educating Waverly

Kaplow, Robert: Me and Orson Welles

Keegan, Nicola: Swimming

Kenry, Chris: Uncle Max

Kersh, Jack: Hotel Sarajevo

Khedairi, Betool: A Sky So Close

Kidd, Chip: Happy series

The Cheese Monkeys

The Learners

Kimmel, Haven: Something Rising (Light and Swift)

Kincaid, Jamaica: Annie John

Kincaid, Jamaica: Lucy

King, Lily: The Pleasing Hour

King, Stephen: novella "The Body" in his collection Different Seasons

King, Tabitha: One on One

Kirshenbaum, Binnie: An Almost Perfect Moment

Klein, Rachel: The Moth Diaries

Kowalski, William: The Adventures of Flash Jackson

Kowalski, William: Eddie's Bastard

Kramon, Justin: Finny

Lalwani, Nikita: Gifted

Lamb, Wally: She's Come Undone

Lazar, Zachary: Aaron, Approximately

LaZebnik, Claire Scovell: Same As It Never Was

Lefcourt, Peter: Eleven Karens

Lerner, Lisa: Just Like Beauty

Lessing, Doris: Ben Lovatt series

The Fifth Child

Ben, in the World

lê thi diem thúy: The Gangster We Are All Looking For

Levy, B.S.: Last Open Road series (aka Buddy Palumbo series)

The Last Open Road

Montezuma's Ferrari

The Fabulous Trashwagon

Leyner, Mark: The Tetherballs of Bougainville

Lott, Bret: The Hunt CLub

Ludington, Max: Tiger in a Trance

Lukas, Susan: Fat Emily

Luna, Louisa: Brave New Girl

MacDonald, Ann-Marie: The Way the Crow Flies

MacLaverty, Bernard: The Anatomy School

MacLeod, Alistair: No Great Mischief

Magruder, James: Sugarless

Makine, Andrei: Dreams of My Russian Summers

Malloy, Brian: The Year of Ice

Mantel, Hilary: An Experiment in Love

Martinez, Manuel Luis: Drift

Mathews, Lou: L.A. Breakdown

May, Jesse: Shut Up and Deal

McBride, Shawn: Green Grass Grace

McCabe, Patrick: The Butcher Boy

McCafferty, Megan: Jessica Darling series

Sloppy Firsts

Second Helpings

Charmed Thirds

Fourth Comings

Perfect Fifths

McCandless, Sarah Grace: The Girl I Wanted To Be

McCandless, Sarah Grace: Grosse Pointe Girl

McLain, Paula: A Ticket to Ride

McComas, Paul: Planet of the Dates

McCorkle, Jill: The Cheer Leader

McDermott, Alice: Child of My Heart

McDonell, Nick: Twelve

McFarland, Dennis: Prince Edward

McNally, John: The Book of Ralph

McNeil, Jean: Hunting Down Home

McNicholl, Damian: A Son Called Gabriel

Meallet, Sandro: Edgewater Angels

Melville, Herman: Redburn

Mendelsohn, Jane: Innocence

Meno, Joe: Hairstyles of the Damned

Merrick, Elizabeth: Girly

Merullo, Roland: The Talk-Funny Girl

Miller, Heather Ross: Champeen

Miller, Karen E. Quinones: Using What You Got

Minot, Eliza: The Tiny One

Minot, Susan: Monkeys

Mitcham, Judson: Sabbath Creek

Mitchell, David: Black Swan Green

Mitchell, David: Number9Dream

Monroe, Mary: God Don't Like Ugly(NOTE: This title is part of the Annette Goode & Rhoda Nelson series, listed under Sistahs)

Moore, Michael Scott: Too Much of Nothing

Moore, Susanna: The Whiteness of Bones

Moriarty, Jaclyn: Feeling Sorry for Celia

Morris, Michael: Slow Way Home

Mosby, Katherine: The Season of Lillian Dawes

Mosher, Howard Frank: Waiting for Teddy Williams

Murphy, Peter: John the Revelator

Murray, Paul: Skippy Dies

Nelson, Lisa: Playing Botticelli

Nicholls, David: A Question of Attraction

Nicholson, Joy: The Tribes of Palos Verdes

Niemi, Mikael: Popular Music from Vittula

Nolan, Han: Born Blue

Norman, Howard: The Bird Artist

O'Dell, Tawni: Back Roads

Odhiambo, David: Kipligat's Chance

O'Neill, Heather: Lullabies for Little Criminals

Paul, Jasmine: A Girl, in Parts

Peacock, Nancy: Life Without Water (North Carolina, 1960s)

Peck, Dale: What We Lost

Peck, Robert Newton: A Day No Pigs Would Die (Vermont Shakers, contemporary [1970s])